Paul the Psychic Octopus – the documentary! (Wired)

You may remember Paul the Psychic Octopus – Europeans loved him for correctly predicting the outcome of the final seven 2010 World Cup games.

Paul died a short time after that, in October 2010. But not before he amassed a giant following and became a pop-culture sensation. His former home, the Sea Life Centre in Germany, ended up building a big memorial to him.

The film’s creators – The People vs. George Lucas director Alexandre O. Philippe and director of photography Robert Muratore – interviewed a small soccer team’s worth of people for the film, including Paul’s agent, fans who came to the Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, where Paul lived, two members of the winning Spanish soccer team and statistician David Spiegelhalter (seen in the trailer above), who runs the numbers on the phenomenon.

There’s also footage of Paul’s “archrival,” Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog that predicts the beginning of spring, plus scenes from Paul’s funeral.